Word.ws English Dictionary

Globemaster

Globemaster proper noun: any of three models of airlifter, produced by the Douglas Aircraft Company or its successors. They include the C-74, the C-124, and the C-17.

globemaster: any of three models of airlifter, produced by the Douglas Aircraft Company or its successors. They...
Image: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Proper noun

the Globemaster

  1. Any of three models of airlifter, produced by the Douglas Aircraft Company or its successors. They include the C-74, the C-124, and the C-17.
    • The original Globemaster was a piston-engined aircraft.

Noun

Globemaster (plural Globemasters)

  1. An instance of any of these models.
    • The cow pasture was big enough to set a Globemaster down onto, and that's all they needed.
    • Several Globemasters passed over, eastward bound.

Forms of Globemaster

pluralGlobemasters

Origin of Globemaster

By proprialization from globe + master or Globe + master.

Questions about Globemaster

What does Globemaster mean?
Globemaster means any of three models of airlifter, produced by the Douglas Aircraft Company or its successors. They include the C-74, the C-124, and the C-17.
What part of speech is Globemaster?
Globemaster can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Globemaster in the dictionary

  1. globemaker
  2. globemakers
  3. globemaking
  4. globemallow
  5. globemallows
  6. Globemaster
  7. Globemasters
  8. glober
  9. globes
  10. globes of compression
  11. globes of the world

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Globemaster (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Globemaster.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/globemaster. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.